… watching for the brushstrokes of God
This quieting is the letting go of structures, the letting go of techniques, the letting go of all the ways that we attempt to control the situation, all of the ways we try to manipulate God. That’s the type of quieting that needs to happen here: quieting my instinct to control things; quieting my desire for the familiar, my desire to always trod the familiar paths and not to risk the unknown. ~ Thomas Green, Experiencing God
How do you let go in prayer?
“I discovered the Sabbath isn’t about what is done or left undone as much as breathing in the goodness of God. The more I inhale the more I desired another long breath.“ ~ Margaret Feinberg
How do you breathe in?
… A blessing can be like the discovery of a fresh well. It would be lovely if we could rediscover our power to bless one another I believe each of us can bless. When a blessing is invoked it changes the atmosphere.…The quiet eternal that dwells in our souls is silent and subtle; in the activity of blessing it emerges to embrace and nurture us. ~ John O’Donohue
How do you bless?
“We had a joke in South Africa in the 80s. ‘There are two possible solutions to our crisis here. One is miraculous, and one is realistic. One solution is that God will send down angels and sort us all out. That’s the realistic solution. The miraculous one is that we will sit down and talk with our enemies.’” ~ Rev. Charles Villa-Vicencio
How do you live believing in miraculous solutions?
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.” Isaiah 40:21-22
Lift up your eyes?
…”To bear this blessing,
you must first take yourself
to a place where everyone
does not look like you
or think like you,
a place where they do not
believe precisely as you believe,
where their thoughts
and ideas and gestures
are not exact echoes
of your own. … “ ~ Jan Richardson
Where does this take you?
